#oversharing — Public Fediverse posts

Some hours ago I freaked out about the SpaceX thing. Not an anxiety attack, but close enough. I had some hope that the IPO wouldn't succeed, that people would stop him.

I've accepted now that we've just validated and rewarded everything I despise. Now I'm just tired and sad.

Today is one of those very few days when my hope plunges to a new low and stays there. This is the new baseline

I'll be offline.

#oversharing #capitalism #depression #spaceX #elonMusk #broligarchy #techbros #fascism #ai

#oversharing
You know you’re getting old when words and concepts take on new meanings. I’m aware that slang changes constantly, but this isn’t about slang.
For a while now I’ve been seeing the term “backrooms” and only recently realized it doesn’t mean what it used to.
Backrooms used to refer to darkened rooms at the back of gay bars where guys would go for quick, anonymous, usually quiet sex. Not every gay bar had one, and there was only one. Used in a sentence: “I heard the bar has a backroom”, or “some dude I met in a backroom”. If you wanted sex right here, right now, with the privacy that a dark room provides, standing up (there was no furniture, they were just dark, empty rooms), this may be just the ticket for you.
I wasn’t a connoisseur of backrooms, but they weren’t completely unknown to me.
There was a lot of unsafe sex going on, which is one of the reasons why they don’t exist any more. This was at a time when the risks of unsafe sex were very well known, which was one of the reasons I never spent much time there. I lived through the AIDS crisis in the US in the 80s and early 90s, so I knew what to do to avoid seroconversion.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I finally asked Google “what are backrooms?” (forget UrbanDictionary, it’s just a bunch of bullshit jokes) and learned that the term originated in a 4chan discussion (strike one). Getting to the modern backrooms involves “accidentally no-clipping out of reality” (my eyes start rolling back in my head), which is a term from video games where…. and I’m out.
I guess the truly shocking part of this post is the admission that I don’t play and never have played video games. I’m a dinosaur. Reading was always my escape since childhood. I don’t disparage video games or players, it’s just not my thing. It makes me sad that the concept of reading for pleasure seems to have gone the way of letter-writing. Over nearly 30 years of teaching French literature, I kept having to reduce the amount of reading I expected from my students because they just couldn’t do it.
It’s not that students are less intelligent than they used to be (although I think ChatGPT and similar LLMs are very harmful because they’re being used as a substitute for thinking), it’s that our understanding of “knowing” is changing. I once attended a lecture by Quentin Crisp (that’s
how old I am) during which he said, “The most important thing you can learn about is yourself. Everything else you can look up.” Knowing yourself is extremely important, but so is knowing the world around you. And you can’t just look up the experience of wandering into the backroom of a bar. Or trace the evolution of public gay sex between men from “cottaging” to backrooms to sex clubs to bath houses in large metropolitan areas. The distinctions between sex clubs and bath houses could fill someone’s dissertation, and probably have.
I suppose I’m a product of my times and choices so that I know more about the original backrooms than I do about video games. I do know that 4chan is a huge pile of shit and not worth my time, though. Even dinosaurs can learn things.
There’s a character from Amy Sedaris’ “At Home with Amy Sedaris” who liked to say after offering some unsolicited opinion or an unwanted observation, “I’ve said too much, I’ve said too much!”
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Amii Stewart, “Knock on Wood” (1979). When this song came out I was a 20-year-old newly-minted gay kid in Lawrence, Kansas. If I had a dime for every time I’ve danced in public to this song, I would be rich. Bars, clubs, Pride weekends, parties, tea dances (especially Sunday tea dances)… so many good memories.
One of the last times I danced to it was at a Sunday tea dance at the wonderful Timberline in Seattle, the former Sons of Norway Lodge. Beautiful space made of huge logs with a very high ceiling. Very Pacific Northwest. I’m sure it’s been replaced long ago with a high-rise, along with Re-Bar, another favorite.
The graphics in the video seem very retro now, but in 1979 it was one of the earliest music videos.
My coming out was very bumpy at first, but eventually it became a lot of fun. Musically, I moved from rock to disco, starting with Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”.
It was exciting because I was finally honest with myself about being gay. About half my straight friends dropped me, but I made a lot of new friends quickly. Lawrence, Kansas was actually quite supportive and had a large gay community. It probably still does, despite the fact that Kansas, like many places, has gotten much more conservative. But in the late 70s it was fun.
#oversharing

https://youtu.be/XKuJUxGntRI?si=gdg7QOHjGdVFodCB

#oversharing Random memory / true story:
“I’m Chrissie Hynde, and we’re the Pretenders!”
Thunderous applause.
“I’d like to thank our opening act, Bow Wow Wow…”
Thunderous boos.
“…and if you don’t like them, you can fuck right off!”
This was in a field house at the University of California Santa Barbara in the early 80s. The field house was a massive box made of corrugated metal with a wooden floor. I don’t remember much about the concert because I was probably high, and I’m old now and my memory is not good. Never has been. What I most remember about the show was how unbearably awful the acoustics were. Never saw the Pretenders or Bow Wow Wow a second time, unfortunately.
I saw a lot of great concerts when I was younger. Some day I’ll bore you with a partial list of all the great concerts I’ve seen. (But they include Eartha Kitt at a small jazz club, Everything but the Girl, and Nina Simone, all in Seattle. It’s a long list.)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zSl3Yo56HFM&si=rhLJ5gPLD1qzn0jG

#USPol #oversharing
I was radicalized twice, the first time by the Vietnam War and the second time by the AIDS crisis in the US.

The Vietnam War taught me that the US was lying and killing soldiers and civilians, and as a result it was not to be trusted but feared and resisted. The AIDS crisis in the US and the official silence but public mockery by Reagan (may he burn in Hell forever) and the Republicans taught me that the official US government is cruel, homophobic and a direct threat to my existence.
Trump has further radicalized me by revealing himself as a cruel, racist, shockingly corrupt, narcissistic madman. The revelation to me in my mature years how many of my fellow citizens actively and passively support cruelty, ignorance, anti-reason, racism, lawlessness, and boundless greed has been a sad filter through which I now see reality as it is, not as I hoped it would be or turn out.

Expectation to perform regret can be more troubling than the procedure, in my experience! #oversharing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/26/abortion-trauma-myth-irish-women-patriarchy

Barney Frank made substantive contributions to LGB lives and deserves recognition and thanks for that. His stance on trans folx was “problematic”, to say the least.
Many years ago he cruised me and several other gay men in the showers and locker room of my gym in Seattle. That experience is the lens through which I’ll always view him. Not to kink shame those who enjoy public sex, it’s just not my scene. But the way he went about it was unattractive to me.
#oversharing

https://www.advocate.com/opinion/barney-frank-painful-cnn-interview

Time for more #oversharing. My dad’s 3rd wife (not my mom) had an obsession with decorative baskets made by a company whose headquarters was a building shaped like one of their baskets. Her other obsessions included Disney and George W. Bush. Our relationship was not warm. She insisted my brothers and I call her Mom. We refused, saying our Mom died not that long ago. It was about 6 months between my mom’s death and her marriage to my dad after a “whirlwind”courtship”.
It’s a long, sad story.

No I’m not!
Not any more. But there was a long stretch about 30 years ago when I had no risk aversion whatsover. I was pretty manic. That was fun…
And then I went through a long depression. Am I bipolar? I’ve had tests, and therapy, and now I have meds and ongoing therapy. Things are much better now. I’m pretty risk-averse these days.
#oversharing

Why Sharing a Screenshot Can Get You Jailed in the UAE

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/why-sharing-a-screenshot-can-get-you-jailed-in-the-uae/

Falls ihr euch Anfang des Jahres zum #Testlesen gemeldet habt und bis jetzt noch nichts bekommen habt, liegt’s nicht daran, dass ich euch vergessen habe. #InternatCrossroads #KarnevalCrossroads

Ich bin seit Januar nicht wirklich weitergekommen mit dem Manuskript. Hatte Anfang Februar eine Fortsetzung einer Serie geschaut, die bis Ende März zu einer #Hyperfixierung (*1) wurde, was alle anderen #Hobbys lahmgelegt hat. (Geschrieben hab ich, aber an einer #Fanfiction zu dem Fandom. Ist sogar zu einem recht großen Projekt geworden, das 10 GB meiner Festplatte benutzt hat. Also 9 GB Notizen und 1 GB Zeichnungen. :0)
Andererseits konnte ich nach 2 Jahren endlich mal wieder ein AMV-Edit machen (sogar 2!), also beschwere ich mich nicht.
- https://youtu.be/y0Yygzr0Psk
- https://youtu.be/jdZk0f7tWTE

Danach hatte ich einen #Job bekommen, zu dem ich #verreisen musste, bei welchem ich aber nach einem Arbeitstag gefeuert wurde. :(
Das Blöde daran, dass mich der Job wieder in #Reiselust (= Bahn/Bus) und in eine extrovertierte Stimmung versetzt hat. Eine Woche später bekam ich dann krasses #Fernweh, das sich bis nun 3 Wochen später immer noch zieht.
(Neben dem Fernweh auch eine andere Hyperfixierung bekommen, die mit einem ludischen #Crush (*2) verbunden war und mich etwas fertig gemacht hat, weil der Crush leider sehr einseitig war … Das Gute an meiner #Fray -Orientierung (*3), dass Crushes jeglicher Art nicht lange andauern und in dieser Hinsicht hat mir die extrovertierte Stimmung sogar etwas Gutes getan, da ich die Person somit schneller kennenlernen konnte. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXW9fG9vX0T/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== )

Die extrovertierte & hyperaktive Stimmung ist nun etwas abgeklungen. (4 Wochen am Stück war glaub ich ein Rekord und jetzt hab ich einen #Burnout . Danke für nichts.)
Ich mein, okay, sooo schlimm war’s nicht. Der letzte Monat war zwar absolut unproduktiv bei meinen Hobbys, ich hab dennoch paar gute #Erinnerungen und #Erfahrungen gemacht und bereue die Zeit nicht.

Jetzt hat mein #Studium angefangen, sodass ich weiterhin weniger machen kann.
Komme selbst kaum mit meinen Rezi-Exemplaren auf @[email protected] hinterher.

Also mit der #Veröffentlichung nächsten Februar wird da nichts. Es sei denn ich bekomme nächsten Monat einen richtigen Schubs und schaffe den #Testlese-Entwurf auf magische Weise bis Juni. Vielleicht dann krieg ich’s noch hin. Sieht aber nicht so danach aus.

Einerseits bin ich glücklich, dass ich wieder mehr zur Introvertiertheit neige (würde sagen momentan bin ich #ambivert), da ich nun mehr Fokus für meine indoor-Hobbys habe.
Andererseits ist Extrovertiertheit in einer sozialen/menschenlastigen Einrichtung doch hilfreicher. Die erste Vorlesungswoche war super, hab gleich neue Bekanntschaften geschlossen und alles. Ich hatte aber nicht alle Kurse in der ersten Woche – zB war letzten Freitag die erste Unterrichtsstunde eines Proseminars und hab da schon bemerkt, wie meine #SocialAnxiety zurückgekrochen kommt. Mit dem Burnout und „ludischem #Liebeskummer“ (*4) dazu, ist das echt anstrengend.

Na ja, zumindest sind die Prüfungen erst am Ende; lieber am Anfang sowas durchmachen als während dem Semesterende (= Stress). :‘)

#Sommer ist auch noch Sonn-Zeit. Heißt, selbst wenn ich nicht #extrovertiert bin und zu Hause verbringen kann, bin ich 10-16 Uhr auf #Balkonien … da komme ich auch kaum zum #Schreiben, denn am Abend muss ich Hausaufgaben machen oder lernen.

Mal sehen wie das wird mit der #Novelle … irgendwann kommt sie auf jeden Fall.

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*1: Hyperfixierung: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfokus
*2: ludische Liebe: https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Ludic_Attraction
*3: Fray-Orientierung: https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Frayattraction
*4: Ich würde es nicht mit klassischem (oder bei mir platonischem) Liebeskummer vergleichen, aber es hat mich 2 Tage gekostet, bis ich aus der melancholischen Stimmung ausbrechen konnte. Etwas Wut auf mich selbst, dass es von der Persönlichkeit her eine ähnliche Person war, auf der ich vor ca 10 Jahren bereits einen ludischen Crush hatte. WARUM. (Warum müssen Leute mit einem ähnlichen #Humor zu mir so gegensätzlich zum Rest von mir sein!! 😩)
Ich bereue die Zeit wie gesagt nicht, aber der Crush an sich war schon unnötig.

(Low-key #oversharing ???)

Kennt ihr das, wenn der Körper einfach mal Nein sagt? Mein Darm ist gerade in sehr konsequenter Verweigerungshaltung. Kann man nix machen. Ab zum Abdecker.
#oversharing #montag #infekt
#alltag #gesundheit #schicksalsjahreeineskaisers

Behold, the manifesto for #oversharing your half-baked ideas like a modern-day Plato, but with less toga and more #toolbelt 🤦‍♂️🔧. It's a love letter to #mediocrity, where watching someone pick a color palette is the highlight of your day. Ah, the sweet smell of artisanal boredom 🍆💤.
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up #modernPlato #artisanalboredom #HackerNews #ngated

sorry for the tornado facts, i thought we were building a siren #autism #humor #internet #oversharing

A quotation from Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
 
[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

Oversharing y ciberseguridad – Qué está en juego si los empleados comparten demasiado en línea

La defensa de los empleados existe como concepto desde hace más de una década. Pero lo que comenzó como una forma bienintencionada de mejorar el perfil corporativo, el liderazgo intelectual y el marketing, también tiene algunas consecuencias no deseadas. Cuando los profesionales publican sobre su trabajo, su empresa y su función, esperan llegar a profesionales con ideas afines, así como a clientes potenciales y socios. Desde ESET, advierten que los actores maliciosos también están prestando atención y que cuanta más información haya, más oportunidades habrá para llevar a cabo actividades maliciosas que podrían acabar afectando gravemente a una organización. Una vez que esa información es de dominio público, a menudo se utiliza para ayudar a crear ataques convincentes de spearphishing o de compromiso del correo electrónico empresarial (BEC) (Fuente ESET Latam).

“La primera etapa de un ataque típico de ingeniería social es la recopilación de información. La siguiente es utilizar esa información como arma en un ataque de spearphishing diseñado para engañar al destinatario y que instale sin saberlo malware en su dispositivo. O, potencialmente, para que comparta sus credenciales corporativas para obtener acceso inicial. Esto podría lograrse a través de un correo electrónico, un mensaje de texto o incluso una llamada telefónica. Alternativamente, podrían utilizar la información para suplantar a un ejecutivo de alto nivel o a un proveedor en un correo electrónico, una llamada telefónica o una videollamada en la que soliciten una transferencia bancaria urgente.”, revela Martina Lopez, Investigadora de Seguridad Informática de ESET Latinoamérica.

Las principales plataformas para compartir este tipo de información son las habituales. LinkedIn es quizás la más utilizada. Se podría describir como la mayor base de datos abierta de información corporativa del mundo: un auténtico tesoro de puestos de trabajo, funciones, responsabilidades y relaciones internas. También es el lugar donde los reclutadores publican ofertas de empleo, que pueden revelar demasiados detalles técnicos que luego pueden aprovecharse en ataques de spearphishing.

GitHub es quizás más conocido en el contexto de la ciberseguridad como un lugar donde los desarrolladores distraídos publican secretos codificados, direcciones IP y datos de clientes. Pero también pueden compartir información más inocua sobre nombres de proyectos, nombres de canalizaciones CI/CD e información sobre las pilas tecnológicas y las bibliotecas de código abierto que utilizan. También pueden compartir direcciones de correo electrónico corporativas en las configuraciones de Git commit.

Luego están las plataformas sociales clásicas orientadas al usuario final, como Instagram y X. Aquí es donde los empleados suelen compartir detalles sobre sus planes de viaje a conferencias y otros eventos, lo que podría utilizarse en su contra y en contra de su organización. Incluso la información que aparece en el sitio web de su empresa podría ser útil para un posible estafador o hacker. Piense en detalles sobre plataformas técnicas, proveedores y socios, o anuncios corporativos importantes, como actividades de fusiones y adquisiciones. Todo ello podría servir de pretexto para un phishing sofisticado.

Estos ataques suelen requerir una combinación de suplantación de identidad, urgencia y relevancia. A continuación se presentan algunos ejemplos hipotéticos:

• Un atacante encuentra información en LinkedIn sobre un nuevo empleado que ocupa un puesto en el departamento de TI de la empresa A, incluyendo sus funciones y responsabilidades principales. Se hace pasar por un proveedor tecnológico clave y afirma que es necesaria una actualización de seguridad urgente, haciendo referencia al nombre, los datos de contacto y el puesto del objetivo. El enlace de la actualización es malicioso.
• Un agente malicioso encuentra información sobre dos compañeros de trabajo en GitHub, incluido el proyecto en el que están trabajando. Se hace pasar por uno de ellos en un correo electrónico en el que le pide al otro que revise un documento adjunto, que contiene malware.
• Un estafador encuentra un video de un ejecutivo en LinkedIn o en el sitio web de una empresa. Ve en el feed de Instagram/X de esa persona que va a dar una conferencia y que estará fuera de la oficina. Sabiendo que puede ser difícil ponerse en contacto con el ejecutivo, lanza un ataque BEC deepfake utilizando video o audio para engañar a un miembro del equipo financiero y que transfiera fondos urgentes a un nuevo proveedor.

Desde ESET describen ejemplos reales de actores maliciosos que utilizan técnicas de «inteligencia de fuentes abiertas» (OSINT) en las primeras etapas de los ataques. Entre ellos se incluyen:

• Un ataque BEC que le costó 3.6 millones de dólares a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA): es probable que los actores maliciosos revisaran los comunicados de prensa sobre un campus recién anunciado para obtener más detalles, incluido el socio constructor del hospital. A continuación, habrían utilizado LinkedIn y/o el sitio web de la empresa para identificar a los principales ejecutivos y miembros del equipo financiero de la empresa constructora implicada (JE Dunn). Por último, se hicieron pasar por el director financiero en un correo electrónico enviado al equipo financiero de CHOA en el que solicitaban que actualizaran sus datos de pago para JE Dunn.
• Los grupos SEABORGIUM, con sede en Rusia, y TA453, alineado con Irán, utilizan OSINT para realizar reconocimientos antes de lanzar ataques de spearphishing contra objetivos preseleccionados. Según el NCSC del Reino Unido, utilizan las redes sociales y las plataformas de networking profesional para «investigar los intereses [de sus objetivos] e identificar sus contactos sociales o profesionales en el mundo real». Una vez que han establecido la confianza y la relación a través del correo electrónico, envían un enlace para recopilar las credenciales de las víctimas.

“Si bien los riesgos de compartir en exceso son reales, las soluciones son sencillas. El arma más potente es la educación, actualizar los programas de concienciación sobre seguridad es un punto fundamental para garantizar que quienes integran una compañía comprendan la importancia de no compartir en exceso en las redes sociales. Solicitar al personal que evite compartir información a través de mensajes directos no solicitados, incluso si reconocen al usuario (ya que su cuenta podría haber sido suplantada) y asegurarse de que sean capaces de detectar los intentos de phishing, BEC y deepfake.”, aconseja Lopez de ESET Latinoamérica.

Además, dentro de las recomendaciones de seguridad de ESET Latinoamérica, se encuentra el respaldar esto con una política estricta sobre el uso de las redes sociales, definiendo límites claros sobre lo que se puede y no se puede compartir, y aplicando fronteras claras entre las cuentas personales y las profesionales/oficiales. Es posible que también sea necesario revisar y actualizar los sitios web y las cuentas corporativas para eliminar cualquier información que pueda ser utilizada como arma.

También, chequear la autenticación multifactorial (MFA) y las contraseñas seguras (almacenadas en un administrador de contraseñas) también deben ser una práctica habitual en todas las cuentas de redes sociales, por si las cuentas profesionales son comprometidas para atacar a los compañeros de trabajo.

Por último, supervisar las cuentas de acceso público, siempre que sea posible, para detectar cualquier información que pueda ser utilizada para el spearphishing y el BEC, y realizar ejercicios de equipo rojo con los empleados para poner a prueba su concienciación.

“La IA está haciendo que sea más rápido y fácil que nunca para los actores maliciosos perfilar a sus objetivos, recopilar OSINT y luego redactar correos electrónicos/mensajes convincentes en un lenguaje natural perfecto. Los deepfakes impulsados por IA aumentan aún más sus opciones. La conclusión debería ser que, si algo es de dominio público, hay que esperar que un ciberdelincuente también lo sepa y que pronto llamará a la puerta.”, cierra Martina Lopez de ESET.

After 20+ years into a relationship, the phrase "grease me up woman!" takes on a whole new meaning.🤣

#BackPain #Ointment #Unguent #OverSharing #TigerBalm #TheSimpsons

Touched one of my OSS issue trackers and suffered some psychic damage as a result. Oops.

Doesn't help that I am a bit sensitive rn; I've been able to work out a switch to a devops role at work, which is more my speed than feature development has been. But we've got a dedicated developer-experience person starting in a monthish, and like. insofar as that's even a role that exists, it's /my jam/.

I'm terrified he'll be all "wow, what's this shitty bespoke CLI tool you're using, you should switch to $alternative".

Anyway BTW I PROBABLY HAVE A THERAPIST NOW so maybe that will help. Unless she recommends I just quit OSS for my mental health 😬

#Oversharing #TMI #StreamOfConsciousness #Hashtags

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

Und wenn Sie für nix fies sind, wie man am Rhein sagt, können Sie ja noch mal recherchieren, warum ich jetzt zwei Wochen lieber liege statt sitze, nach so einem vesikovaginalem Fistelverschluss mit Bulbocavernosus-Fettlappenplastik nach Martius. Das klingt cooler, als es ist, aber wenn es mir hilft: Mit Herz! #toomuchinformation #oversharing

@CarstenBoll Uhhh. En af de ting som mange i min gruppe gør. #oversharing

I rebooted my social life

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing

#HackerNews #I #rebooted #my #social #life #socialmedia #personalgrowth #oversharing #lifechanges #community

I was horrified when my mother revealed that she always had a certain kind of fondness for Melvyn Bragg.

Yes, well you're not alone there Mum, but I really didn't need to know that.

Back in the day, though. Phwoar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQd6ZHcKwM

#oversharing

Communications expert shares 3 simple tricks to stop oversharing during conversations

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/tips-to-stop-oversharing

@mayintoronto Yes, exactly. Accept they're usually bleak distillations of the worst parts. Actually my waking life is really quite good, just with dark corners, metaphorically dark I mean. #OverSharing

A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users https://www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-data-hub-exposed-sensitive-intel-to-thousands-of-unauthorized-users/ #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Oversharing #Security

@ewenbell

Very well said, thank you. This is also a nice production. THe audio is stable the lighting is balanced, thank you

Thank you for producing this video. Thank you even more for sharing it for the FediVerse to see

#photography #FediVerse #sharing #oversharing